11th form "A Brief History of Chocolate" Vocabulary

1. When most of us hear the word chocolate, we ____ a bar, a box of bonbons, or a bunny.

2. The verb that comes to ____ is probably "eat", not "drink", and the most suited adjective would seem to be "sweet".

3. But for about 90 per cent of chocolate's long history, it was ____ a beverage, and sugar didn't have anything to do with it.

4. Etymologists ____ the origin of the word "cholcolate' to the Aztec word "xocoatl", which referred to a bitter drink brewed from cacao beans.

5. Many modern historians have ____ that chocolate has been around for about 2000 years, but recent research offers that it may be even older.

6. The earliest evidence of chocolate consumption _____ back three or even four millennia, to pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica such as the Olmec.

7. Last November, anthropologists from the University of Pennsylvania announced the ____ of cacao remains on pottery excavated in Honduras that could date back as far as 1400 B.C.

8. It's hard to pin down ____ when chocolate was born, but it's clear that it was cherished from the start.

9. For several centuries in pre-modern Latin America, cacao beans were considered ____ enough to use as currency.

10. Both, the Mayans and Aztecs believed the cacao bean had magical, or even divine, properties, ____ for use in the most sacred rituals of birth, marriage and death.